muscularity

plural muscularities

1. countableuncountableSynonym of musculature.

   The muscularity in his forearm was visible as he flexed his fingers.

   Synonyms: musculature

2. countableuncountablebodybuildingThe degree to which the muscles in a body part are developed.

   Focussed exercise brought out the muscularity in her calves.

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   She has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.

   1974, Mark Smith, “Nymphomania”, in The Death of the Detective, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, book 1 (Prelude to Murder), page 78

3. countableuncountableThe use of strength.

   I won’t promote the silencing of dissent through verbal muscularity.

   2018 October 13, Judith Taylor, “I’m a woman who imitated the swagger of an entitled white male — and it got results”, in The Star